Stuff

1)  Saw Batman Rises this weekend on HBO.  I never saw this one in the movie, primarily because I rather disliked the previous movie in the trilogy.  I liked this one better than I thought I would.  Never would have thought of casting Anne Hathaway as Catwoman, but she did a pretty good job.  All in all, I liked it better than the previous installments.

2)  Made a cheesecake for Father's Day.  My sister also made a cheesecake for Father's Day. We had a lot of cheesecake yesterday.  Today, back to diet.

3)  Watched the first ep of the new season of True Blood.  I have no frakking idea where this is going...

4) Mad Men -  It pains me to say this, but Don was not wrong.  That said, neither was Peggy.  He did the right thing but entirely for exactly the reasons that Peggy accused him of. Pete and Bob -- hah!  And I was right about Bob being the new Don, and Pete totally sees it too. :)

Warm Bodies - The Feel Good Zombie Movie

Watched "Warm Bodies" on OnDemand tonight.

I read the book last winter so I pretty much knew the story, though there were some changes in plot from the book.  Even the end changed a little.  Still, I enjoyed both.  It is, strangely enough, a feel good zombie movie:)

In the book and the movie "zombie," while actually being zombies, also functions a metaphor for disconnection and cynicism (more explicitly so in the book, I thought).  So Warm Bodies is more of a story of reconnection and rebirth, when "R" saves a potential victim rather than kill her and wackiness (and some oddball romance) ensues,  aka -- a feel good zombie movie (who would'da thunk it?)

It's the anti-apocalypse. (Friendship, compassion, and love reawaken humanity).

Though they did change the ending (to a happier one) for the movie.  (It's essentially the same, but they allowed one character who succumbed to despair to choose the opposite, and I noticed that they did sort of a symbolic baptism/rebirth that was staged differently in the novel).

It  also maintained much of the humor from the book (and I did laugh at the "Pretty Woman" bit.)

If you're someone like myself who can't handle zombie stuff, Warm Bodies is not even the tiniest bit scary.   (And, seriously, I CANNOT watch "The Walking Dead".  It freaks me right out),  On the other hand, if you like your zombie tales dystopian and terrifying, then Warm Bodies will probably be somewhat cheesy and too optimistically fluffy.

Still, I enjoyed it.  It's an anti-dystopian feel-good movie  (that is, if you can handle a romantic hero who starts off  killing some someone and eating his brains... :)